This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skills required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work.
● Predictions 2025: Will You Stall Or Soar By Embracing The Future Of Work?
As 2025 approaches, businesses stand at a critical crossroads: Will they soar to new heights by embracing the future of work or stall in the face of emerging challenges?
Forrester’s annual predictions for the focus areas in the world of work in 2025 are now available. Read the highlights here.
○ Conditional EX (Employee Experience) dominating (a trend that leaders may want to reconsider).
○ The return-to-office war escalating, but again – be warned – hybrid is here to stay.
○ Plus, the rush to close AI skills gaps.
● What is YOUR Big Idea for the Future?
If you’re a visionary leader with a unique perspective on the future of work, we’d love to hear from you. We’re always looking to feature new voices and ideas on our podcast, and we’d be thrilled to explore your “big idea” in an upcoming episode.
Listen to The TomorrowToday Podcast today for other experts’ ideas for the future of business!
🎙️ Episode 1’s big idea from Siphiwe Moyo: Creating A Workplace Culture Where Mastery Is Valued and Intentional.
Siphiwe’s big idea is that companies should invest in their employees’ leisure time as a strategic approach to peak performance. Leisure activities enhance creativity and performance, and leaders should actually care about this! Listen here.
🎙️ Episode 2’s big idea from Andy Bounds: Why communication skills in the digital age are absolutely critical.
Andy’s big idea? To thrive in the future of work, leaders must excel at digital communication. He shares impactful advice on building genuine connections in virtual settings, stressing the importance of preparation, humour, and clear messaging. Listen here.
Catch these episodes on The TomorrowToday Podcast and reach out if you’d like to share your insights with our audience. (Or nominate someone that we can reach out to.)
● What leaders at winning companies know and what you need to learn.
by Lang Davison, Wayne Borchardt, Parul Munshi, and Pete Brown3.
Successful leaders at top-performing companies are all taking similar steps, even across industries, propelling their enterprises to a 13-fold performance advantage over rivals.
Among the findings in this article from PWC: respondents at top companies are more likely than those at other companies to say they have executives with strategic foresight, a tight focus on activities that drive performance, and a commitment to enterprise-wide transformation coupled with a bias toward action. Read more here.
(You can also download our team’s free Strategic Imagination Toolkit here to develop your own team’s strategic foresight.)
● ThrowForward Thursday: The End of Company Emails.
In the future, it is possible that companies will not supply us with email addresses, but we will rather bring our own (just like we buy our own cars, phones and have your own personal cellphone numbers these days).
This is more than a technology conversation – this is about fractional workers (senior people working for more than one company at the same time) and top talent being confident to say that their personal brand is more important than the brand of the company they work for (we do that already on LinkedIn, by the way).
Does this mean we could actually get rid of email? Could we adapt to this kind of technological change? Watch the full episode here.
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